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Special seats and other devices designed to help prevent parents from accidentally leaving babies and toddlers behind in cars don’t work, a team of experts said on Monday. They said parents shouldn’t rely on them to keep children safe.

The news that two parents in separate central Indiana incidents left their young child in a sweltering vehicle during a record heat wave has stirred outrage, but national child car-safety advocates say that, in reality, it happens more often than people realize and it happens to all kinds of parents.

The batteries accounted for 84% of the battery-related hospital emergency department visits by children between 1990 and 2009.

My daughter participated in a Christmas gift exchange in her young-adult-usher ministry. Every teen but my daughter brought gift cards. She came with a movie to exchange. Her gift was not so popular. My, how times have changed. Forget the crazy-colored scarves or the overly bold-smelling lotion gift packs. The gift card is the go-to present when you don’t know what to get someone. My husband and I laughed that the teens could have put all the cards in a bowl and then selected the one each wanted.

The new rule means many public pools can no longer rely on drain covers alone to prevent children from drowning or being injured.

When the American Academy of Pediatrics recently recommended that children ride in rear-facing car seats until at least age 2 — up from the previous minimum age of 1 — Internet news sites lit up with outrage. Many parents were hardly eager to embrace the latest medical advice about how to best protect toddlers from serious head, neck and spinal injuries.

Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that even made the researchers do a double-take....

A 3-year-old boy freed himself from a safety harness. stood up and fell to his death from a roller coaster he was riding with his family at a Chicago suburban amusement park, authorities confirmed on Sunday.

A pediatricians’ group now says that toddlers shouldn’t move to a forward-facing seat until at least age 2.

Parents and children can drill down to dentistry's fun side at the National Museum of Dentistry through Jan. 30.